Reaching for the Moon (1930)

19301h 06mdir. Edmund GouldingUnited Statesmusical film

Note: this print runs 66 minutes against a recorded 91 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels, Edward Everett Horton, Claud Allister, Jack Mulhall, Walter Walker, June MacCloy, Helen Jerome Eddy

Directed by Edmund Goulding

Reaching for the Moon is a 1930 American pre-Code black and white musical film. Originally released at 91 minutes; surviving versions are usually cut to 62 minutes. A 74-minute version aired in 1998 on AMC. The DVD version runs just under 72 minutes. The film's working title was Lucky Break and is known as Para alcanzar la Luna in Spain. It is not to be confused with the 1917 Fairbanks silent film Reaching for the Moon.

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